(A) Officers. Each officer shall perform all duties required of his or her office by state law, the Charter, this code and ordinances of the city, and other duties not in conflict therewith as may be required by the Lead City Commission.
(B) Department heads.
(1) Department head, defined. Any elected or appointed person other than the Mayor or Commissioners who has direct supervision and responsibility for personnel records, funds, maintenance and service to be performed by a municipal department.
(2) Responsibility to Lead City Commission. The department heads shall be immediately responsible to the Lead City Commission for the effective administration of their respective departments and all activities assigned thereto.
(3) Inaugurate sound practices. The department heads shall keep informed as to the latest practices in their particular field.
(4) Report to administrator. The department heads shall submit reports of the activities of their departments to the Lead City Commission as may be required by these ordinances or at the special request of the Lead City Commission.
(5) Maintain records. The department heads shall establish and maintain a system of filing and indexing records and reports in sufficient detail to furnish all information necessary for proper control of departmental activities and to form a basis for the periodic reports to the Lead City Commission.
(6) Authority over employees. The department heads shall have power, when authorized by the Lead City Commission, to appoint and remove, subject to the personnel policy regulations, all subordinates under them.
(7) Maintain equipment. The department heads shall be responsible for the proper maintenance of all city property and equipment used in their departments.
(C) Departments. Each department shall furnish, upon the direction of the Lead City Commission, any other department service, labor and materials as may be requisitioned by the head of that department, and as its own facilities permit, through the same procedure and subject to the same audit and control as other expenditures are incurred.
(Prior Code, § 2-310)